89: The Pineal Gland.  The Third Eye.—S. D., III, 548.
1. Goal of evolution to develop the inner vision.
2. The occult significance of the eye.—S. D., III, 577.
3. The "eye of Taurus the Bull."—(Compare bull's-eye.)
The constellation of Taurus was called the Mother of Revelation and the interpreter of the divine Voice.—S. D., I, 721.
4. The organs of inner vision:
a. The exoteric organ......Pineal gland......physical.
b. The esoteric organ......the third eye.....etheric.
Note:  Students must be careful to distinguish between the third eye and the pineal gland.—See S. D., II, 308.  "The third eye is dead and acts no longer."  It has left behind a witness to its existence in the Pineal gland.
5. The Pineal gland is a small pea-like mass of grey nervous matter attached to the back of the third ventricle of the brain.
6. The Pituitary Body stands to the Pineal gland as manas does to Buddhi, or mind to wisdom.—S. D., III, 504, 505.
7. The Pineal gland reached its highest development proportionately with the Lowest Physical development.—S. D., II, 308, 313.
8. The third eye exists in etheric matter.
a. In front of the head.
b. On a level with the eyes.
9. It is an energy centre formed by a triangle of force:
a. The Pituitary Body.
b. The Pineal Gland.
c. The alta major centre.
10. The opened or third eye does not convey direct clairvoyance but is the organ through which direct and certain knowledge is obtained.—S. D., I, 77.
a. The initiate directs the eye towards the essence of things.
b. The third eye must be acquired by the ascetic before he becomes an adept.—S. D., II, 651.
11. Students of occultism ought to know that the third eye is indissolubly connected with karma.—S. D., II, 312, note; S. D., II, 316, 320.
a. From its Atlantean past, the fifth root-race is working out fourth root-race causes.
b. Because it reveals that which is its past.—S. D., II, 297, 320, 813.
12. The third eye is the mirror of the soul.—S. D., II, 312.
13. To the inner spiritual eye the Gods are no more abstractions than our soul and body are to us.—S. D., I, 694.
a. The inner eye can see through the veil of matter.—S. D., I, 694.
b. The spiritual eye reveals the super-sensual states.—S. D., II, 561.
14. In the spiritual regenerated man the third eye is active.—S. D., II, 458.